Touted as a film about the life of Gendun Choephel, the movie is less a complete biography than an analysis of the monk's conflict with the norms of Tibetan Buddhism and society.
The most recent statistics available for the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) reveal that the proportion of the local population that cannot read or write increased by more than 10 percent, to 54.9 percent in 2003, from 43.8 percent in 2002.
